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The course by IMF provides an overview of empirical methods and analytical techniques for assessing the impact and effectiveness of development innovations at product and policy levels and the way to measure what's working. The course provides tools to evaluate the causal impact of various policies and programs.

In the paper, the author's then went ahead to examine the extent to which various regimes constraint policy space for member nations. They studied four US agreements 

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- Summarised from Asian Development Bank's authors A. Abiad, M. Arao, E. Lavina, R. Platitas, J. Pagaduan, C. Jabagat's chapter in  COVID in developing economies

- Summarised from World Bank's authors Rabah Arezki, Rachel Yuting Fan and Ha Nguyen's chapter in  COVID in developing economies

- Summarised from World Bank's authors Calvin Z. Djiofack, Hasan Dudu and Albert G. Zeufack's chapter in COVID in developing economies

- Summarised from Ilan Noy,  Nguyen Doan, Benno Ferrarini and Donghyun Park's article in COVID-19 in developing countries

- Summarised from Constantino Hevia and Andy Neumeyer's chapter from   COVID-19 in Developing Economies The authors plotted Google mobility trends for places of work and for retail and recreation like restaurants, cafes etc which showed declines,

The macroeconomic flu is a temporary negative supply and demand shock, that is a temporary decline in output followed by a quick recovery.

WITS data shows that the export share to China from India in 2018 stood at 5%. Imports, on the other hand, stood at 14.7% making China the largest import partner of India and that too by a big margin as the US occupying the second spot has an import share of 6.3%.

FDI would play an important role in the post-COVID revival of the developing world. World Bank's Global Investment Competitiveness Report 2019-20 discusses the FDI scenario before COVID and during the COVID times.

Amongst top CO2 emitters (1960-2010) by absolute emissions stand these economies:

Southeast Asian experience of the 1970s and 1980s consisted of high growth based on export  competitiveness, low debt combined with low and stable inflation. Most of the East Asian  countries were running budget surpluses.

Problem Statement: A local council is planning to build a rubbish incinerator on a piece of the English countryside that is much loved and used by local residents.

India is a net importer of energy, with High-Speed-Diesel playing a central role in India’s energy dynamics. Due to this, diesel prices were passed in a controlled manner and distributed asymmetrically between favourable and unfavourable shocks.

The six-member panel under former RBI Governor Jalan was appointed on December 26, 2018, to review the economic capital framework (ECF) for the RBI after the Finance Ministry asked the Central Bank to transfer more surplus to the government from its excess reserves (Livemint 2019).

Role of the central bank balance sheet 1. Ultimate means of settlement: One of the interesting features of the central bank's balance sheet is that its main liabilities are banknotes and commercial bank reserves, which are a form of money in the modern economy.